yellow ticket
English
Noun
yellow ticket (plural yellow tickets)
- (historical) A personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire.
- 1914, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (author), Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment, part I, chapter II:
- “ […] When my own daughter first went out with a yellow ticket, then I had to go... (for my daughter has a yellow passport),” he added in parenthesis, looking with a certain uneasiness at the young man.
- 1914, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (author), Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment, part I, chapter II:
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personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire
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